Speaker to sue Comelec, Smartmatic, et al.
By Charlie V. Manalo 05/20/2010 Saying the mounting reports of automated election fraud from all over the country can no longer be dismissed as minor glitches in an otherwise generally credible elections, Speaker Prospero Nograles yesterday said he was filing criminal charges against the Commission on Elections (Comelec) officials, Smartmatic, the National Printing Office and even some of the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI). In a statement, Nograles said that with the evidence and testimonies presented and which continue to pour in from all sectors, including those of a whistleblower caught on video claiming he had participated in a nationwide criminal conspiracy to steal millions of votes to ensure the election of candidates who paid millions to win, point to one truth: The 2010 automated election is the most tragic subversion of the will of the Filipino people in the nation’s history. Yesterday, during a weekly forum, a newspaper columnist showed a 30-minute video of a masked man claiming he was part of a group who sold the election results to the highest bidder, shaving the votes of administration bet, Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro and former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada by at least five million votes each. If Nograles pushes through with his plan to sue the aforementioned, he will be the second in a week to have filed charges against the poll body. Last Monday, former Assemblyman Homobono Adaza filed an eight-page complaint against the very same entities Nograles would be suing before the Office of the Ombudsman. .... MORE Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100520hed1.html |
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